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Fifteen years after one of the worst disasters in Russian naval history — the sinking of the Kursk submarine in the Barents Sea in which all 118 crew members died — the number of Russians who blame the authorities for not doing enough to rescue the sailors has dropped. The tragedy occurred on Aug. 12, 2000, making it one of the first serious challenges faced by Russia's new president Vladimir Putin. While at the time and in the immediate aftermath, the president's actions were criticized, a poll published Monday by the independent pollster Levada Center showed that 40 percent of...

The biography provided by Barack Obama to his literary agent specified his birthplace as "Kenya". And, over the course of 17 years, despite multiple revisions by Obama, the Kenyan birthplace remained a fundamental part of the bio on the agent's website. Was Barack actually born in Kenya? I seriously doubt it, even though Michelle Obama has publicly stated that Kenya is her husband's "home country". Contemporary newspaper listings in Honolulu, for example, list the time and place of his birth. While this isn't ironclad proof, to be sure, it's good enough for me. No, my suspicion is that Mr. Obama...

--For Immediate Release-- FOIA Law Suit Reaches Boston’s Federal Appeals Court FBI Cannot Locate Documents, Again On September 12, 2002 the 1st Circuit Federal Appeals Court in Boston will hear arguments from the FBI and the Flight 800 Independent Researchers Organization (FIRO) over the release of data and analyses from the FBI’s investigation into TWA Flight 800. Flight 800 crashed off the coast of Long Island in 1996, killing all 230 onboard. FIRO is hoping to gain access to the reports and laboratory analyses of foreign objects found during victim autopsy examinations. Some of those objects have been determined to...